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London, England, Gb

Manage projects deploying the JustRide SaaS Transit Fare Collection Solutions.

Mississauga, Ontario, Ca

Managed multiple, concurrent design and build projects for fare collection systems for public transportation including custom software, data warehouse and reporting, web based management and e-commerce portals, mobile (IOS/Android) solutions, Point of Sale (POS) solutions, proprietary manufactured hardware and 3rd party software and hardware integrations, and construction/installation of Ticket Vending Machines. * Project Engineer - Define system requirements and system design documents for new products - Contract through Inventive Concepts, Hurst TX 2013-2014 * Led globally dispersed engineering teams, outsourced resources, and subcontractors to successfully execute multiple, concurrent deployment projects valued to 15M. * Created and presented executive briefings, presided over stakeholder status meetings, and guided contract negotiations and issue resolution. * Established customer confidence and fostered relationships to add scope and grow contract values 5-10% for additional features and services. * Gathered and managed customer requirements, created requirements specifications and traceability matrices for customer projects, new products, and product roadmaps. * Headed and facilitated the creation of project management, collaboration, and issue tracking standards and guidelines for process improvement. * Managed subcontractors and partner agreements for engineering services, manufacturing, cloud infrastructure, electronic onboard installations, Cash collection, and payment service providers for credit card processing.

Annapolis, Md, Us

Managed the deployment of fully redundant, clustered infrastructure, proprietary software , and 3rd party product integrations to provide Rail Management and Control Systems including central control and passenger information (PA and Visual) systems. * Successfully completed PMI training courses to certify under ARINC’s CMMI level 2 process requirements. * Fostered young engineering team to become senior contributors.

Managed multiple, concurrent design and deployment projects valued from 6M-10M for custom software for Computer Aided Dispatch / Automated Vehicle Location (CAD/AVL) systems including custom software, high availability IT infrastructure, proprietary on-board vehicle electronics, multi-site voice/data RF and Cellular communications systems and construction for RF antenna sites and control centers. * Orbital Sciences Corporation Transportation Management Systems 2006-2008 acquired by Affiliated Computer Services (ACS), Acquired by Xerox. * Successfully completed projects and gained and maintained the confidence of customers resulting in the award of additional contract scope and new contracts increasing value greater than 10% * Created product requirements, recruited and hired a development team, and produced a new product for managing school bus fleets. * Created a roadmap and screen models for modernization of the user interface for the core product.

Manage multiple, concurrent projects to design and build Computer Aided Dispatch / Automated Vehicle Location systems valued from $500k - $30M. * Managed the $20M CAD/AVL system implementation for Houston, TX from proposal preparation and solution design through successful acceptance, ahead of schedule and under budget. * Managed the customer relationships resulting in over $1.3M of change orders and add-on business for projects. * Managed the implementation of a cellular based CAD/AVL system, completed successfully in less than 3 months- the fastest implementation in company history.

Given a leadership role in a startup Professional Services consulting firm and transformed the team and marketing message to improve engagement award and success. * Provided sales support in the realms of Network Security, UNIX system administration, Network Design, and high availability backup and storage systems. Created marketing and sales messages, * * Priced engagements and wrote the proposals resulting in tripling revenue from 64K in Q2 to over 218K in Q4. * Increased consultant utilization from under 20% to over 70% in one year. Doubled annual revenue to over 1M.

Managed systems engineering team and contractors to create a new high-availability, high-performance datacenter sized to handle 1M users for a nationwide Internet service provider (ISP) startup. * Designed and deployed datacenter server and network infrastructure, server management system, storage architecture, and directory services architecture on time and within budget.

Melbourne, Florida, Us

Progressed from a co-op Systems Programmer hired in 1988, promoted through software engineering levels to become the Manager of Software Engineering for the Alaskan field office building a high-availability (5 nines) FAA satellite telecommunications network management and control system. * Designed and simplified architecture for phase 2 of this system to reduce equipment and deployment costs while achieving the same or better reliability. * Designed and Developed Network Management and Control System software in C, SQL, Motif, X- Windows, and SL-GMS on Unix platforms utilizing SCADA, SNMP, and custom asynchronous scripting. * Wrote exits and applications on IBM Mainframe computer.

Bs, Computer Science

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